This chapel was used from about 1590 until the opening of the Georgian Chapel in 1743. It contains three features, from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, which illustrate the gradual easing of persecution over the century and a half. At first all ‘Massing Stuff’ had to be concealed when not in use, and so, [...]
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The Chapel – Harvington Hall
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2017
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Harvington Hall – Priest Hides
Harvington Hall, a medieval and Elizabethan manor house situated on an island surrounded by a moat is in the ownership of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.
A house full of secrets, Harvington Hall was built in the 1580s by Humphrey Pakington, who was a recusant Catholic under the Protestant rule of Elizabeth I. The hall [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Sep 6th 2017
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Moseley Old Hall
For two days, in September 1651, the destiny of Britain was decided within the walls of Moseley Old Hall.
In January 1649 Charles I had been executed in Whitehall, the monarchy had been abolished and the country declared a Commonwealth. The hopes of the Royalist Cause now rested on the shoulders of his eighteen-year-old son, Charles [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2017
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Little Malvern Court
Little Malvern Court is a 14th century Prior’s Hall once attached to a 12th century Benedictine Priory with Victorian additions. The house, home to the Berington family by descent since the Dissolution of the Monasteries displays paintings and furniture along with a collection of 18th and 19th century and needlework.
Doubtless, the preservation of this notable [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2017
Synopsis from the book cover:
Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizbethan England is most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when to [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2015
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University Church of St Mary the Virgin
There has been a church on this site for a thousand years, standing in the very centre of the ancient walled city of Oxford.
In the early thirteenth century the University began to develop as scholars and teachers, with their classes of scholars, moved into small halls of residence here. They needed a central meeting place and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 25th 2015
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Imprisoned…
…John Gerard, Catholic Priest, 1597
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John Gerard (1564–1637) was an English Jesuit priest, operating covertly in England during the Elizabethan period in which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution.
John is noted not only for successfully hiding from the English authorities for eight years before his capture, but for enduring extensive torture, escaping from the Tower of London and, [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2015
